The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1887-02-19
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PETROLEUM has been found in Central
Belgium.
'MIsFIr suits to hire" are advertised in
New York.
STURGEON skin makes durable boot aud
shoe leather.
THE leading dentist in st. Petersburg ts
an American.
CANADA is building her first steel steam
er at Toronto.
CIGARETTE paper is said to be made in
113 mills in Spain.
SERPENT-sKIN is coming into fashion as
covering for books.
ST. 1eNAoE, Mich, has doctor who is
also an undertaken
IT is predicted that the new Boston court
house will cost 100000.
CHURCHILL has gone to Algiers to re-
store break in his health.
OBLIGATORY military service in Belgium
is to be made thirteen years.
A MAN in Pennsylvania has just sold his
wife and four children for $50.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS does all his lit
erary work with goose quill
MRS. LILLE PRoK, Of Olalla, Ore, has
killed seven bears this winter.
MORE people are cremated these days in
railroad cars than in crematores.
A LOUISIANA (Mo.) man had the lic-
coughs for fourteen consecutive days.
THE Limerick municipal council has re-
fused to celebrate the Queens jubilee.
ACANADIAN says that the word tobog1an
is properly pronounced with the second
long.
OLD settlers in Dakota say this has been
the severest winter ever experienced
there.
The children Of Apaches imprisoned in
Florida are being educated in Pennsyl-
vania.
CONTRACTS for carrying the British mails
to America will expire at the end OF the
month.
THE ghost of Stonewall jackson, mounted
on his war-horse, has lately been seen in
Virginia.
IT is now in order tor some Chicago muir
derer to arrange-if he can-to be hanged
by proxy.
ENGLAND has practically decided to
adopt the Lee American rife fsr the use
of her army.
LARGE numbers of cedar railway ties are
being shipped from Alpena, Mich. by rail
to New Mexico.
The question in Europe is not how to
avoid war, but how to avoid the RESPONSE
bility for causing it.
FASHIONABLE churches in New York are
l nkvo NTH hot ho ktrao3.
ular pew spongers."
TWENTY-FIVE indians have just entered
the Institute at Hampton, Va, from the
Dakota Reservation.
A VEIN of marble one hundred feet wide
has been discovered on the road from
Bodie to Carson, New.
THE State of Delaware has not single
Republican official-the only State in the
Union that can say so.
A POPULAR subscription has been started
in Arizona to purchase gold-mounted
sword for General Miles.
DAN RICE, the veteran circus clown and
temperance lecturer, has again fallen into
bad habits in Cincinnati.
AGE and its infirmities are the cause Of
the retirement Of President Pickard from
the Iowa State University.
A PETRIFIED human being is said to have
been discovered in cave on Sand Noun
tain, Tenn, few days ago.
CLEVELAND, O., has 26H square miles Of
territory; Cincinnati, "a; Chicago, 80; New
York, An; and London, III.
WE are paying annually s75,OOO,OOO in
pensions, and if the proposed new bills be-
come laws it will reach sl47, 100000.
A BILL has been introduced into the
Pennsylvania Legislature providing for
the retirement of judges on pension.
GILBERT, the English librettist has not
seen one Of his plays acted for fourteen
years, owing to excessive nervousness.
GENERAL SHERMAN would sink sea-coast
forts below the surface of the water, and
in this way make them almost impregna-
BILE.
The Philadelphia ITEM says never Judge
man by the umbrella he carries. Nine
times out of ten it belongs to somebody
else.
GUssIE TooGooD was acquitted of muir.
der on her second trial at Des Moines
which she regards as just too good foI
any thing.
THE German post-office authorities are
making extensive experiments with q
view to connect the whole Of Germany by
telephone.
THE largest coal mine in the vicinity Of
Huntsville, Mo-, has been op ned on the
cooper alive plan, the men paying one cent
bushel for the use of the plant
STANDARD time is being abandoned il
some Michigan cities and towns, and it is
thought the Legislature of that State
will repeal the law that legalized its adop
! ton.
LEADvILLE has the champion toboggar
, slide. 1t runs from the top of Mosquito
J Pass, through the city to the Arkansa!
|: miles.
The largest theater in the world is tn,
/ new opera-house in Paris. 1t covers near
ly three acres of ground; its cubic mas
! is A3ST,0O0 feet; it cost about 100, COX, 0O
, francs.
J SAN Francisco is greatly interested il
! the subject Of coast defenses. They hav,
! plan for the defense of the Golden Cat,
! that would call for the expenditure of 81,
: S6S,150.
. WINKELMIER is the name of giant VIII,
is now on exhibition in London. Heis eigh
feet and nine inches in height, and is there
fore more than a foot taller than Chang
the Chinese giant.
r. F. SIMPSON, of st. Elmo, Mich, wa